30th
December 2016 (Friday)
....10.00 Oh dear.... we have frost,
and thick fog this morning, definitely not a morning for poodling about
outside: the
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| Morris car in Five Ash Down. |
pavements will be
slippery. The fog should disappear by midday, but it is thick,
and there’s nae wind so it might linger in the valleys and low bits all
day. “JB” is coming over sometime in the
afternoon ... we’ll make a ‘plan’ then.
22.30 The fog persisted all day; in fact it had turned into ‘Scotch Mist’
... oops ‘Sussex Mist’ by 14.00. and has been so ever since. “JB” wasn’t able to come over, so we walked
to the “Pig and Butcher, the ‘pub in the nearby village of in Five Ash Down...
a distance of 2.46 kilometres (1.528 miles)to have lunch. The original intention was to walk back
home, but, while we were in the ‘pub having our lunch, the ‘Sussex Mist’ drifted
in. When we left the ‘pub’ we were lucky to find that
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| Pub sign |
there was a Bus Stop
outside the ‘pub’ and a bus was due in the next few minutes.
The
“Pig and Butcher” is owned by Harvey’s of Lewes and they have given it a makeover since the last time we were in
there; it is now a ‘classy’ place, and
a nice place to go for quiet drink, and a meal. Having left the “No 1” to walk to the ‘pub’,
before the ‘troops’ I anticipated having to wait for Janice and Michael to
arrive, so, for the first time in a long time, so long that I can’t remember
the last time, I bought a ‘pint’ glass of beer; my usual is half a pint. As it was the ‘troops’ arrived about five
minutes after me; I enjoyed the pint.... but it took me the
whole lunch time to drink it.
The
weather, the walking and the pint must have worn me out; I slept for two hours after we got
back. The fog is supposed clear away
tomorrow, leaving us with ‘variable cloud’;
no mention of rain. Tomorrow is
of course ‘Hogmanay’; normally I don’t
‘bring in’ the New Year, haven’t done so since Maggie
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| Me -with a pint! |
died, but I might ‘stay
up’ this year.
Photographs
: Top – found this beauty ‘moored up’ outside Five Ash Down Post Office, Middle
– Pub sign, and Bottom – the ‘boy’ hanging onto a pint glass!
